Server Configuration

For some reason the demographics of exmsft.com tend towards the geeky – people entertained by things like server configurations and the like. Fine. As of May 28, 2022 exmsft.com runs on a VPS out at InMotion Hosting. The server is “dedicated”, in that it’s 100% dedicated to exmsft.com. Since it’s virtual we actually have no […]

Signing up for an exmsft.com email address

Signing Up IMPORTANT: for a variety of reasons (expanded on here), we are no longer providing forwarding services. Instead, we can provide POP3 accounts with 50MB quotas. Configuration information is here. What you’re asking for To be clear, what you will be requesting is a new email address of the form: alias<at>exmsft.com where “alias” is your […]

The exmsft.com meltdown of 2012

If you’re wondering if exmsft.com had been having problems, you’re quite correct – it was. Emphasis on “was”. In the first half of March 2012 the original exmsft.com had a major and terminal meltdown. This is the completely new exmsft.com server, and at the same time a new volunteer owner: Leo Notenboom. As a result […]

exmsft.com Terms and Policies

Terms of service Updated: 2023-07-27. exmsft.com is a free service to ex-Microsoft employees. As such there’s no guarantee of uptime, support, and so on. That’s not to say we don’t make our best efforts, we absolutely do – but we just can’t guarantee anything. 🙂 In the spirit of full disclosure, I’d recommend you have […]